Problems with diskless/nfs

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:12 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote:

> Hello list!
> 
> I'm trying to set up a diskless workstation, but I fail.
> 
> The boot process stops at "Can't find kernel" then the OK prompt appear.
> 
> In the log I have this:
> 
> mountd[1200]: mount request denied from 10.0.0.6 for /news/spool/ad16/x86
> 
> pxeboot loads but can't find the kernel because of this.
> 
> in inetd.conf I have this for tftpd
> 
> 
> tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd -l
> -s /news/spool/ad16/x86
> 
> It seems like it is some problem with nfs.
> 
> Any help is welcome.
> 

What's the output of (on the pxeboot/tftp/dhcp server):

$ showmount -e | grep "^[[:space:]]*/news/spool/ad16/x86"

(empty? it shouldn't be)

$ grep "^[[:space:]]*/news/spool/ad16/x86" /etc/exports

(empty? it shouldn't be)

-- 
Devin

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